Background
Betty Roe was born in North Kensington, London, England. Her father was a fishmonger at the Shepherd"s Bush Market, and her mother was a bookkeeper.
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Education
She studied piano with Fiona Addie, Muriel Dale, and Sadie MacCormack, and cello with Alison Dalrymple at the Royal Academy of Music, but left school in 1947 and took a job as a filing clerk. She continued her study of singing with Clive Carey, Roy Hickman, Peter van der Stolk, and Margaret Field-Hyde, and studied composition with Lennox Berkeley.
Career
She continued at the Royal Academy in 1949, studying piano with York Bowen, cello with Alison Dalrymple, and voice with Jean McKenzie-Grieve. In the 1950s she became involved with a drama group where she began writing for musicals. She also worked as a sessions singer with London ensembles.
Roe married John Bishop and had three children.
After his death in 2000 Thames Publishing became a division of William Elkin Music Services.
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